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  <h1 class="refname">MongoDB::drop</h1>
  <p class="verinfo">(PECL mongo &gt;=0.9.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">MongoDB::drop</span> &mdash; <span class="dc-title">Drops this database</span></p>

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 <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-mongodb.drop-description">
  <h3 class="title">Description</h3>
  <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
   <span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>MongoDB::drop</strong></span>(): <span class="type">array</span></div>

  <p class="para rdfs-comment">
   This drops the database currently being used.
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  <p class="para">
   This is identical to running:
   <div class="example-contents">
<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #007700">public&nbsp;function&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">drop</span><span style="color: #007700">()&nbsp;{<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$this</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">command</span><span style="color: #007700">(array(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"dropDatabase"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">=&gt;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">1</span><span style="color: #007700">));<br />}<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>
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 <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-mongodb.drop-parameters">
  <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>    
  <p class="para">This function has no parameters.</p>
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 <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-mongodb.drop-returnvalues">
  <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
  <p class="para">
   Returns the database response.
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  <h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
  <div class="example" id="example-72">
   <p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>MongoDB::drop()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
   <div class="example-contents"><p>This example demonstrates how to drop a mongo database and the response to expect.</p></div>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php<br /><br />$db&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">=&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$mongo</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">foo</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$response&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">=&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$db</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">drop</span><span style="color: #007700">();<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">print_r</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$response</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>
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</code></div>
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   <div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output
something similar to:</p></div>
   <div class="example-contents screen">
<div class="cdata"><pre>
Array
(
    [dropped] =&gt; foo.$cmd
    [ok] =&gt; 1
)
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